Venezuela Working Group
Venezuela Working Group
The Venezuela Working Group (VWG) leverages AS/COA’s corporate constituency to provide a unique forum for a constructive, hands-on conversation on Venezuela. The VWG navigates Venezuela’s changing economic and political landscape by convening key national and international stakeholders from the public, private, and social sectors to better understand the country’s present challenges and future political and economic scenarios. Our programs include high-level private and public meetings and discussions.
The VWG is open to and currently includes AS/COA corporate, Chairman’s International Advisory Council, Board of Directors, and President’s Circle members.
Venezuelan Opposition Candidate Series
The founder of the Vente Venezuela movement spoke virtually to members gathered in New York.
The candidate of the Voluntad Popular movement spoke to members gathered in Miami.
COA will hold a discussion on October 30 in Washington with the foreign minister of the Venezuela’s interim government of Juan Guaidó.
Leading Venezuelan civil society organizations will present their report The SDGs in Venezuela: Report from an Endangered Country on July 18 at AS/COA in New York.
Council of the Americas will hold a private, off-the-record meeting with James Story, chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela.
Join AWG for a discussion on fighting corruption in a new Venezuela and the launch of the Capacity to Combat Corruption (CCC) Index.
Join us and the Venezuelan American Association of the United States for an evening in support of the Cuatro por Venezuela Foundation's efforts addressing the country's humanitarian crisis.
Observers must maintain pressure and unity until meaningful steps are taken by the Maduro regime, write Eric Farnsworth and Guillermo Zubillaga for Univision.
After 20 years, Hugo Chávez and now Nicolás Maduro's project is exposed as less an ideology than a cold-blooded grab for lasting power and self-enrichment, writes AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.
The Biden administration must refine Washington’s strategy toward the 20-year-old dictatorship.
The problem of Nicolás Maduro is one that doesn’t fall neatly along party lines.
"What is happening in Venezuela risks rapidly spilling over into its neighboring countries," co-writes AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes for Reuters Breakingviews.